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Sweet, Matthew

Summary: "Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars--but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It's a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies--agents who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 SWE

Foley, Michael S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 FOL

Solnit, Rebecca

Summary: In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 SOL

McAnulty, Dara

Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCA

Brantley-Sieders, Dana

Summary: "Provides accessible science and health information for the love of your boobs, especially when they have cancer. Dana Brantley-Seiders spent twenty years working as a biomedical breast cancer researcher. Then, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She thought she knew breast cancer before it whacked her upside her left boob and left her bleeding on the curb of uncertainty. Turns out, she had a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 BRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Wom Brantley

O'Brien, Jacqueline (Jacqueline Wittenoom)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 941.5 OBR

Dwight, Eleanor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VREELAND, DIANA Dwight

Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie.

Summary: A glimpse into the life of the innovative fashion editor of "Harper's Bazaar" and the legendary editor-in-chief of "Vogue," who redefined women's sense of beauty and style, explores her originality, her tenacity, and her inimitable sensibility.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VREELAND, DIANA Stuart

Vreeland, Diana

Summary: Documents the life and career of Diana Vreeland, one of the most influential women of twentieth-century fashion and culture.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIA

Neville, Peter

Summary: "A Traveller's History of Ireland gives a full and accurate portrait of Ireland from its prehistory right up to the present. The story opens with mysterious, early Celtic Ireland where no Roman stood, through Saint Patrick's mission to Ireland which began the process of making it "an island of saints," to the legendary high King Brian Boru and his struggle with Viking and Irish enemies alike....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 NEV

Gregory

Summary: A reproduction of the author's classic retelling of the heroic tales of Celtic mythology, Gods and Fighting Men, includes the original preface by poet William Butler Yeats and a pronunciation guide to Gaelic names and places.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.22 GRE

Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIO

Burns, Loree Griffin

Summary: On November 14, 1963, something exceptional happened in Iceland--and that's saying a lot. In a country where the average summer temperature is 50°F and the sun only appears for a few hours a day during the winter, an event has to be pretty unusual to stand out. The birth of the island of Surtsey, the newest earth on Earth, was just that. On that November day, a volcano fifteen miles offshore...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.5 BUR

Wiencek, Henry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 WIE

Summary: A hardworking Maltese fisherman, struggling to provide for his family amidst strict regulations imposed on his traditional family business by the European Union, enters Malta's fishing underworld.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUZ

O'Toole, Fintan

Summary: "We Don't Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O'Toole's birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O'Toole's life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.7082 O'TO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.7082 OTO

Summary: A comedy/mockumentary about the comedian, Jonathan Winters, who sets out to be a successful painter and dreams of hanging in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Just when his dream is about to become reality, his sense of humor is stolen and he loses his abiltiy to paint. To avert disaster, the filmmakers call on Jonathan's friends, fellow actors and comedians to help him regain his sense of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Certifiably Jonathan, LLC 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JON

Smith, Michael D.

Summary: Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix's 'House of Cards'. Netflix gauged the show's potential from data it had gathered about subscribers' preferences,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384 SMI

O'Connell, Mark

Summary: "From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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O'Connor, Sinaead

Summary: "From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinaead O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'CONNOR, SINAEAD O'CO

Summary: Lessons from professional drummer Tommy Igoe to get any beginner started on drums.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Music 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.9 GET

O'Reilly, Séamas

Summary: Séamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. ­An instant bestseller in Ireland, Did Ye Hear...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'REILLY, SEAMAS O'RE

Lynch, Becky

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Summary: "This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin--a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch--delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already defying what the world expected of her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024

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MacLysaght, Edward.

Summary: Ireland was one of the earliest countries to evolve a system of hereditary surnames. More than 4,000 Gaelic, Norman and Anglo-Irish surnames are listed in this book, giving a wealth of information on the background and location of Irish families. Edward MacLysaght was a leading authority on Irish names and family history. He served as Chief Herald and Genealogical Officer of the Irish Office of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Irish Academic Press 1991

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.341 MAC

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